This week on Your Friendly Neighborhood Librarians, Robyn and Jim welcome Calvin Eaton—the Gluten Free Chef and founder of 540WMain, Inc.—to the podcast! Together, they discuss the beginnings of Calvin's gluten-free journey, his work with the grassroots community space that is 540WMain, and his favorite books and authors!

Your Friendly Neighborhood Librarians are back! Robyn and Jim kick off season three by interviewing Francesca Padilla, the ROC-based author of 2022's What's Coming to Me, a much-celebrated debut described as a poignant and thrilling contemporary YA novel about grief, anger, and fighting for what you deserve.

On this episode, Jim and Robyn are joined by Eboni Jones, Curator of Interpretive Resources at the Charlotte Whitney Allen Library at the Memorial Art Gallery. They touch on what the job of a museum librarian is like, what unexpected items are in the library at the MAG, and how to access all of what the MAG has to offer.

On the heels of the Eisner Award nominations, Your Friendly Neighborhood Librarians are back to talk all things graphic novels! Jason Poole, outreach coordinator at the Webster Public Library and a past Eisner judge, stops by to share his expertise on the subject with Robyn and Jim.

Rhonda Rossman, Penfield Public Library director (and former director of the Pittsford Community Library!), stops by to chat with Robyn and Jim about summer books, Summer Reading, and what kind of reader she is.

Emily Hessney Lynch, MCLS trustee, writer, and owner of Serve Me the Sky Digital, joins Jim and Robyn to talk social media, what it's like to be a member of the MCLS Board of Trustees, and (of course) books!

George Rollie Adams, author and President & CEO Emeritus of The Strong museum, sat down with Jim and Robyn to discuss his career, what is was like to grow up in the segregated south, and how his childhood and career influenced his writing. Learn more about his books and his remarkable path to becoming a novelist at PCL on Thursday, June 2nd at 7PM.

Your Friendly Neighborhood Librarians are back at it with another book club! This time they're talking about To Paradise, the follow-up novel to Hanya Yanagihara's 2015 epic masterpiece, A Little Life. Tune in to hear all of the hot takes and strong opinions Jim, Robyn, and special guest Roberta the Page have to share about Yanagihara's captivating journey through time.

Your Friendly Neighborhood Librarians are back at the microphone again this week, and to celebrate National Library Week they chat with Patty Uttaro, the Director of the Monroe County Library System and the Rochester Public Library! It's a conversation centered on our local libraries, with a focus on the present and an eye toward the future. Plus they get to talk about what Patty loves to read!

It's officially Oscars Season, which means your friendly neighborhood librarians Robyn and Jim are talkin' movies! They sat down with The Little Theatre's Scott Pukos, host of the Movies and a Microphone podcast, about all the nominated movies they liked, loved, and hated.